To play, the musician holds the long tube of the flute in both hands and blows across a small hole at one end. The holes can be opened and closed by pressing down different metal keys. The flute ...

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group ... How to play The sound is made by blowing a stream of air over the mouthpiece (known as an embouchure hole), and pressing down on ...

The xun – pronounced huen in Cantonese – is a flute shaped like an egg but with ... Modern examples have multiple finger holes. The earliest surviving sample, found at an archaeological ...